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The Pope hasn’t exactly been at the forefront of handling the criminality aspect of what many of his priests have been doing. Does his actions (or non-actions) make him criminally complicit?
The UK government is said to have set in motion a law change that will prevent the Pope from being arrested when he visits the country in September.
Officials in Whitehall – the UK government’s administrative offices – are said to be worried over plans by the atheist authors Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens to have Pope Benedict arrested for crimes against humanity, because of his alleged cover-up of priestly assaults on children.
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Justice Secretary Clarke [says] of the law change: “Our commitment to our international obligations and to ensuring that there is no impunity for those accused of crimes of universal jurisdiction is unwavering.“It is important, however, that universal-jurisdiction cases should be proceeded with in this country only on the basis of solid evidence that is likely to lead to a successful prosecution – otherwise there is a risk of damaging our ability to help in conflict resolution or to pursue a coherent foreign policy.
“The government has concluded, after careful consideration, that it would be appropriate to require the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions before an arrest warrant can be issued to a private prosecutor in respect of an offence of universal jurisdiction.”
 Alexander Yusupov,Blogetery’s owner |
Blogetery.com’s bloggers will get their information back.
That’s the word from Joe Marr, chief technology officer of Burst.net, a Scranton, Pa.-based Web hosting service. Burst.net abruptly pulled Blogetery.com offline on July after FBI agents alleged the blogging platform was used by al-Qaeda operatives to distribute recruiting materials and to offer bomb-making tips.
Marr said in a phone interview Friday that his company intends to transfer a “zipped up” copy of Blogetery’s records and move it to another server that Blogetery’s owner has with Burst.net. Marr said the al-Qaeda materials–as well as some copyright infringing files were removed. He said the transfer is due to occur later in the day and that Burst.net will not be hosting Blogetery in the future.
Marr stressed again that the reason for the service termination was that the materials the FBI alleges belonged to terrorists are a violation of Burst.net’s terms of service and this would be only one of Blogetery’s multiple TOS infractions, Marr said. He noted that typically, Burst.net does not return data to customers booted for TOS violations, but Marr said that his company wants to do right by Blogetery users.
Sad that it’s come to this.
This story, clearly being buried by the main stream media because I only saw it months after it was published, obviously points to the REAL illegal alien problem we have. We must build a space fence NOW to keep them out! And off my lawn!@!
One-fifth of the world’s population believes that aliens walk among us, disguised as Homo sapiens for an unknown, but doubtless chilling purpose.
That’s according to a Reuters Ipsos poll, which probed 23,000 adults in 22 countries, and discovered that India is an epicentre of ET activity, with 45 per cent convinced the invasion has already begun.
The Chinese, too, clocked up a substantial 42 per cent of believers, followed by third-placed Japan with 29 per cent.
The Belgians, Dutch and Swedes are having none of it, bottoming out the list with a mere eight per cent. Blighty, meanwhile, scored 16 per cent – a figure perhaps artificially boosted by followers of David Icke.
The overall average of those saying yes, the lizard people have arrived, was 20 per cent, and while the 80 per cent who scoff at such claims is ostensibly heartening, it is of course possible they’re aliens themselves – in which case they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Obviously, trains good, planes bad.
Danielle Covarrubias was understandably upset when she discovered that American Airlines had lost her suitcase, but she became really mad when the airline then refused to refund her $25 baggage fee. That’s when she decided to sue American Airlines for $5 million. The class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of Covarrubias of Pierce County, Wash., is the first since American Airlines started to charge a fee for handling and transporting luggage in June 2008, according to industry experts.
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“It just goes to show you how enraged people are by the lack of common-sense regulation in the airline industry,” said George Hobica, an aviation expert and creator of airfarewatchdog.com. “It doesn’t make any sense at all that somebody should charge for a service and then screw up and not give you your money back.” […] “This case … is about an entire industry that has lost touch with its customers,” Casey Ingels, one of Covarrubias’ lawyers, said in a statement.
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American Airlines damages, loses or delays more than 2,400 pieces of luggage every day.
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The fees, the lawsuit said, represented a “clear and unambiguous agreement with passengers to handle bags with care, and deliver them to their destination in a timely fashion.”
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates say better controls inventory but some critics say raises privacy concerns.
Starting next month, the retailer will place removable “smart tags” on individual garments that can be read by a hand-held scanner. Wal-Mart workers will be able to quickly learn, for instance, which size of Wrangler jeans is missing, with the aim of ensuring shelves are optimally stocked and inventory tightly watched. If successful, the radio-frequency ID tags will be rolled out on other products at Wal-Mart’s more than 3,750 U.S. stores.
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But the company’s latest attempt to use its influence—executives call it the start of a “next-generation Wal-Mart”—has privacy advocates raising questions.
While the tags can be removed from clothing and packages, they can’t be turned off, and they are trackable. Some privacy advocates hypothesize that unscrupulous marketers or criminals will be able to drive by consumers’ homes and scan their garbage to discover what they have recently bought.
Squirrel drinking dog milk shortly after I found him.
- Microsoft making nothing but money. Stock languishes.
- AT&T making money thanks to Apple.
- Facebook CEO could lose company? What?
- Female users are clueless with Facebook says survey.
- IBM mainframes are boring but profitable.
- Droid 2.2 coming shortly.
- Stonehenge II found!
- Microsoft will give away 90,000 phones to its own employees.
- Crazy new app locks your car.
- Nook app helps Android.
- Java can be huge.
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 Not actual sandwich, but close.
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A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DWS performing flight FR-8904 from Berlin Schoenefeld (Germany) to Rygge (Norway), was enroute when a male passenger (45) decided to purchase one of the sandwiches advertised as freshly made, however was served something he thought was not meeting expectations and tasted more like rubber. When he complained about the quality of the sandwich, the crew decided to request police meet the aircraft on arrival in Rygge. The airplane landed safely, police took the passenger off the aircraft.
Rygge’s police confirmed the incident stating with chuckles they had never before been called out for a passenger complaining about a sandwich.
Categorize under: Trains good, Planes bad!
Found by Nina Chr Thiemann.
Cnet News.com
A new report from security software provider Secunia shows that despite considerable security investments, the software industry at large is unable to produce software with substantially fewer vulnerabilities.
The latest data shows that Apple has surpassed Oracle and even Microsoft with accounting for the most software vulnerabilities, though the No. 1 ranking is related only to the number of vulnerabilities–not to how risky they are or how fast they get patched.
This analysis also supports the general perception that a high market share correlates with a high number of vulnerabilities–with Apple (maker of iTunes and QuickTime), Microsoft (Windows, Internet Explorer), and Oracle’s Sun Microsystems (Java) consistently occupying the top ranks during the last five years, along with Adobe Systems (Acrobat Reader, Flash), which joined the group in 2008.
Mac OS has remained relatively untouched by major viruses and hacking efforts in the past, as most ne’er-do-wells may have considered the operating system’s market share and thus potential for private information less enticing than those of Microsoft’s Windows. With the rise of Mac market share and the popularity of the iPhone, however, there is little doubt that Apple platforms will become major malware targets in the near future.
Secunia offers a FREE security tool (Personal Software Inspector) designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks.
It’s a good program… I use it.
For non-Flash version, click here.
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